Part 3Importation of risk goods
Arrival of craft
17AAInformation about biosecurity law for passengers on certain incoming craft
This section applies to a large commercial craft that is en route to New Zealand territory from a point outside New Zealand territory on a flight or voyage that is intended to include arrival in New Zealand.
Before the craft arrives in New Zealand, the person in charge of the craft must—
- provide information to the craft’s passengers about the biosecurity law relevant to arrival in New Zealand, as required by regulations made under this Act; and
- give the Director-General notice that the information has been provided, as required by the regulations (if at all).
Regulations may do any of the following:
- require the information to include specified content or details:
- require the information to be provided in a specified—
- form or manner (for example, with translations); or
- medium (for example, written, audiovisual, or electronic):
- form or manner (for example, with translations); or
- specify criteria that a record of the information in any particular medium (for example, an audiovisual recording) must satisfy:
- authorise the Director-General to provide a record of the information in any particular medium for use by any person under subsection (2)(a):
- authorise the Director-General to approve a person’s record of the information in any particular medium for use by the person under subsection (2)(a), or to revoke an approval:
- specify how long before a craft’s arrival in New Zealand the information must be provided:
- require notice to be given under subsection (2)(b), and specify its content, the form or manner in which it must be given, and when it must be given.
In this section, large commercial craft means a craft that—
- is a commercial craft as defined by section 4 of the Immigration Act 2009; and
- has 20 or more passengers (which excludes crew) on board.
Notes
- Section 17AA: inserted, on , by section 4 of the Biosecurity (Information for Incoming Passengers) Amendment Act 2022 (2022 No 55).